The Man Who Invented AGI

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence--the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat. In the summer of 1956, a group of academics--now we'd call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then--met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines think like humans. One of them, John McCarthy, coined the term "artificial intelligence." This legendary meeting and the naming of a new field, is well known.